"The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books."

-- Werner Herzog

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“When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.”
“Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.”
“I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.”
“God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.”
“No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.”
“Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?”

Source : "Weekly Update for October 17: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2014.
“Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.”
“We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.”

Source : Senate hearing on TSA, full-body scanners, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.

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